Category Archives: Local News

CENTER TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS TO CONSIDER APPLYING FOR DCED GRANT
The Center Township Supervisors will consider a resolution to apply for grant funding at tonight's meeting. The grant is from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. The gra...
Hometown2 Feb 03, 2025

INDIANA COUNTY FIRST RESPONDERS DEAL WITH FIVE CRASHES ON SUNDAY
Five crashes were reported on an active Sunday for Indiana County first responders. The first crash was reported at 1:59 PM along Route 403 North in Rayne Township. Marion Center and Clymer fire depar...
Hometown2 Feb 03, 2025

FREEZING RAIN BACK IN THE FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY
From the US National Weather Service It looks like we have another freezing rain producer arriving late in the day on Wednesday or Wednesday night and persisting through Thursday night. Most of the ma...
Renda Media Feb 03, 2025

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT
From the US National Weather Service A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect through midnight north of Pittsburgh and in the PA ridges where freezing rain is expected this afternoon and evening. Areas ...
Renda Media Feb 02, 2025

GOVERNOR TO DELIVER BUDGET ADDRESS THIS WEEK
Governor Josh Shapiro is scheduled to deliver his state budget address on Tuesday at 12:30 PM before a joint session of the General Assembly, kicking off this year's effort at fashioning a spending an...
Hometown1 Feb 02, 2025

JUDGE ORDERS HEARING IN NEW FLORENCE WOMAN'S DEATH
Westmoreland County Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio has granted continuances for the pretrial conferences scheduled last week for two of the three defendants in the murder of a New Florence woman. The thir...
Hometown1 Feb 02, 2025

PURCHASE LINE BOARD TO MEET
Purchase Line's school board has a very active work session planned for tomorrow night. Among the many activities is ongoing work on revisions to more than two dozen district policies. The directors w...
Hometown1 Feb 02, 2025

VEHICLE CRASH, SMOKE INVESTIGATION HIGHLIGHT SATURDAY FIRST RESPONDER CALLS
Indiana County 911 has been relatively quiet this weekend so far, with only a few incidents. Blairsville and Black Lick firefighters were dispatched yesterday afternoon to a smoke investigation along ...
Hometown1 Feb 02, 2025

GAME COMMISSION WARNS OF AVIAN FLU
The State Game Commission is warning that thousands of migrating geese are carrying avian influenza into the state and endangering other wildlife that come into contact with them, including animals th...
Hometown1 Feb 02, 2025

SURE SIGN OF SPRING! TROUT STOCKING SCHEDULE RELEASED
Today is Groundhog Day, but there's another harbinger of spring in the news...the state Fish & Boat Commission has released the trout stocking schedule for this year, and streams in our area will ...
Hometown1 Feb 02, 2025

America 250
The America250 celebration is coming up. Are you doing anything special?
Yes! Can't wait for the Friday night parade and Saturday's YMCA Star Spangled Celebration at Mack Park!
We'll do our typical picnic and sparklers thing!
We're traveling to some great U.S. historical sites, such as Philadelphia or Washington, D.C.
Nothing special. Just a typical weekend at our house.
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